Table of Contents. 



Part I, Plates 1-35 and I-XV. 



Abbreviations. 



c, circa; C. B. M., Catalogue of the Babylonian Museum, University of Pennsylvania; col., column(s) 

 d.., diameter ; Dyn., Dynasty ; E., East ; fragm., fragment(ary) ; li., height ; Inscr., Inscription ; 1., length 

 li., line(s) ; in., meter ; N., North ; Nippur I, II, III, etc., refers to the corresponding numbers on Plate XV 

 No., number; Nos., numbers; N. P., Notebook of Dr. Peters made on the ruins of Nippur during the second 

 year's excavations; Ob v., Obverse; orig., original (ly) ; p., page; Pho., Photograph; PI., Plate; JRev., 

 Reverse ; S., South ; Sq., Squeeze ; T., Temple of Bel ; th., thick(ness) ; W., West ; w., width ; Z., Ziqqurratu ; 

 Z. A., Zeitschrift fiir Assyriologie . 



Measurements are given in centimetres. Whenever the object varies in size, the largest measurement is given 



I. Autograph Reproductions. 



Plate. Text. Date. 



1 1 Sargon I. 



Saigon 1. 



3 Sargon I. 



4 Naram-Sin. 



5 Al-usharshid. 



Description. 



Door socket in diorite, somewhat smaller than the following. Nippur 

 III, beneath the rooms of T. on the S.E. side of Z. Inscr. 18.5 X 

 10.12, 2 col., 24 li. Sq. On the rough edge, scratched in the rudest 

 way, is the same inscr. as P1.14, Nos. 23-25 (cf. also PI. 12, No. 20). 



Door socket in diorite, 75 x 41.5 X 17.5. Nippur III, same place as 

 No. 1. Inscr. 17.8X10.35, 2 col., 23 li. C.B.M. 8751. Cf.Pl. 1, 1. 

 The variants li. 17 and 21 have been taken from a third door socket 

 in diorite, bearing the same inscr. as No. 2, and found in another 

 trench a short distance from it. 



Brick stamp of baked clay, brown, with handle, 9.45 X 13.55 X 2. 

 Nippur III, close to the S. E. wall of Z. Inscr. 2 col., 6 li. 

 C. B. M. 8754. Cf. PI. II, 2. 



Brick stamp of baked clay, cream colored, handle wanting, 11.75 x 

 12.08x2. Nippur Y, in the N.W. extremity. Inscr. 3 li. C.B.M. 

 8755. Cf. PI. II, 3. 



Three fragments of a dolomite vase. Orig. d. of the vase c. 40. Fragm. 

 8891 : 11.10 X 7.7 X 3.8. Fragm. 8892 a and b (glued together): 

 20.5 X 9.8 X 3.8. Nippur III, approximately same place as PI. 1, 

 No. 1. Inscr. orig. 25.57 X 7.2, 13 li. C. B. M. 8891, 8892 a and b. 

 The text has been restored by the aid of fragm. 8866, 8865, 8843, 

 8860, 8859, 8858, 8853, 8854 on the scale of fragm. 8892. Cf. PI. 

 Ill, 4-12. 



